Change Starts with You!

Welcome to the Stream Smart Program. We need your help to protect local creeks and rivers!

Have you ever wondered how clean our local creeks and the rivers are? Did you know that there are several species of salmon, including the threatened Coho Salmon, that return throughout the year to spawn? Have you ever thought about how choices you make could impact water quality? Through this website, the Stream Smart Team invites you to learn ways that you can help keep our waters clean, fishable, and swimmable. Together we can have cool, clean water for life!

What's New/Quick Links?

Go Blue – 2018 Stream Smart Campaign

Join us in our 2018 Campaign as we clean up along Bear Creek as part of the Adopt-A-River Program.

Bear Creek Fall Festival – Saturday, September 29th, 2018

Help us Go Blue! by attending the Bear Creek Fall Festival to learn about the Bear Creek Watershed and volunteer for the Fall Clean-up events.

Water Quality Concerns

To reach the DEQ complaint hotline for Discharge of pollutants (petroleum products, chemicals, soaps, sediment, etc.) directly or indirectly from a specific source into public waters—call the DEQ complaint hotline at 1-888-997-7888 or visit http://www.deq.state.or.us/complaints/rep.htm. Be as specific as possible, especially when it comes to identifying the source.